The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-10

"A cEAl0De taLbl 4iAAG oNGpe OhSA 1AAC I
greater portion of Northern California and |
Western Nevada between two and three /
o'clock on the morning of the 3d.
THE Latonia Oaks (CincmnatD was won
OF the Sd by Ed Corrigan's Unite.
THE SOUTH.
RIcH finds of placer gold assaying from
$50 to SO per ton are reported from Golden !
City, Ark
WHILE towing a raft down the Little |
Kanawha the other day, near Parkersburg, |
W. Va, the boiler Of the tug boat Whaler
exploded, killing the engineer, Peter Wal
ters and fatally injuring Jackson Smith,
fireman, and the ten-year-old son Of the en-
gipeer, whose right arm was blown OF at
the shoulder.
DAVID WEEBIN, retail dry goods dealer,
and f. LEVEL a. Sons, wholesale hardware
of Savannah, Ga, lost their establishments
by fire recently. Loss, S125, 600; insurance,
$4,000.
WHILE Samuel G.. Reed, a deserter from
the army, was being led from the guard
house at San Antonio, Tex, recently to
undergo trial by court martial, he broke
away from the guards and fed. The
guards sent volley after him and he fell
mortally wounded. He IS believed to have
committed half dozen murders. Few
years ago he and another deserter killed
rich jew named Block at Matamoras and
in Montgomery, Ala.
JOSEPH BARRIER, one of the alleged Texas
train robbers, has proved a clear alibi. He
CLAIMS that he was effered 81, 900 to confess
that he was one Of the band.
AT the convention of the Episcopal do
cese Of Easton, held at Chestertown, Nd,
on the 1st, Rev H s. Lindsay, of St.
johns Church, Georgetown, D. c., was
elected Bishop to succeed the late Bishop
Lay.
RAIN and wind storm passed over
Wheeling, W. Va, on the 1st, doing much
damage to property. During the storm
boat containing three passengers capsized
near the middle Of the river, the occupants
being swept out of sight almost immedi-
ately.
A SPECIAL from Coffeeville Miss, of the
1st says: 'Air Mount, a town nine miles
east of this place, was visited yesterday by
a terrible hall storm The crops were
completely destroyed Many farmers are
ruined"
Two freight trains collided the other
morning forty miles south of Calera, Ala,
on the Louisville q Nashville railway. En-
gineer Howard Rowe and Fireman Burton
(colored) were killed outright, as was also
a negro tramp, while another tramp was
fatally injured. Both trains were badly
wrecked.
RAILWAY men who have made the entire
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wooden bridges have been washed away
IN the floods of the past week between San
Antonio, Tex, and San Francisco.
AT Paducah, KY, recently, MOllie Jack
son, white woman, was ordered sold for
thirty days to the highest bidder on the
ground of vagrancy.
THE number of cases of yellow fever at
Key West, Fla, up to June was thirteen,
of which number four resulted fatally. Six
were sick and three cOnvalescent.
GENERAL.
A TELEGRAM from Genoa, Italy. reports
that Canon Vallega has been murdered in
the Capuchin Church at AlassiO and the
church pIundered by assassius.
FIVE thousand Chinese left Hong Kong
for America during March and April fear
ing the new treaty would deprive them Of
some of their privileges.
A MILITARY fete was held at the Grand
Opera House, Paris; on the night of the
3Ist. An immense crowd assembled out
side shouting for Boulanger and for the
! resignation of the ministry. Considerable
/ turbulence and some rioting was iudulged
IN before quiet was restored.
THE central crater of Mount II ma, Sic
/ lily, began an eruption on the morning of
/ the 31st. The, flow was reported inCreas-
| ing in volume. Heavy clouds of smoke,
masses of stone aud cinders issued from
/ ' the crater.
TWELVE hundred coal miners at Bachmut
/ Russia, who were out on a strike, recently
\ attempted to rob the brewery owned by q
firm of Englishmen. Fifty English wor3l-
men attached TO the brewery mounted
/ horses and resisted the attack of the strik-
! ers. During the fight which occurred three
/ Of the workmen were killed. Many of the
| strikers, who are all Russians, were ar
rested. The conflict was ended before mill
tary aid arrived.
! THE Minister of Colonies has announced
| in the Spanish COrtes that the Government
had decided 10 largely increase the import
| duty on goods imported from nations which,
like the United States, had no commercial
treaty with Spain. 1t was thought that
/ this policy would lead - agitation in Cuba.
Two Of6clals in the presidents Office at
/ Stras burg have been arrested for treason.
| Another official committed suicide before
/ he was arrested.
THE grain porters at AvOnmouth docks,
Bristol, Eng, who struck against the use
| of elevators in unloading vessels, have
gone back to work. the employers having
promised to use the elevators only when
they were insuf6oi5ntly supplied with man
ual labor.
VICAR WARREN, Of Trinity Church, Lon
don, has accepted conditionally the call
extended to him by Trinity Church, New
York
WHILE the quadrille was being performed
| in the Wild West Show at London the
other day, the horse Of Buck Taylor the
noted cowboy, bolted and crushed him
l against the cantIe Of another horses sad
die Taylor fell TO the ground and sus-
I tanned a compound fracture of the thigh,
! and was removed to st. Georges Hospital.
a DISPATCH from Wellington says: 'sThe
Parliament Of New Zealand has been dis
/ solved ia consequence of the defeat of the
budget presented by Sir julius Hogan,
! Colonial Treasurer
AN arrang cement has been cor ciudtd with
: France fer uniform custom duties IN Ger
I man and French possessIons Sn the Afri-
can slave coast. The duty on gun powder
per 100 pounds, English, viii be 2s I'd on
, rides, 4d each; on spirits. Sd 70 ga per gal
Ion. according to the alcoholic strength.
Bevond these duties uOtraasient or Internal
customs viii be levied.
REPORTS from various points in the
| southern part OF Mexico show that the
| earthquake Of the s9th was felt very gene
rally II was felt in Jalapa, Espera0za,
Tlascala, Tchuacana. Pueblo and Oaxaca-
Two men died in Montreal the other day
from poison placed in their lunch baskets
by unknown persons.
THE London Tine, declares that the Fen
ian brotherhood OF New YORK intends "a
celebrate the Queens jubilee BY dynamite
outrages-
THERE is little doubt but that a steamer
with 750 lives was lost in the recent cyclone
near Calcutta.
THE fund for the relief of Jne sufferers
by The Opera Com4que hro ia F.4r.s amounts
10 4C0OOo francs